The site started in late 2014. I’d been ill with some serious mental health problems, and was still recovering from a devastating breakdown. I hadn’t been able to write anything for years. I was a journalist of sorts in a former life, before my brain started to eat itself.

Previously I ran the horror movie website (and surprisingly popular Tumblr) Fuck Yeah Horror (RIP) with a few friends, but became jaded as the trend for pointless so-called “torture porn” horror continued. I’m pretty old fashioned and I like Good to triumph after sitting through 90 minutes of traumatic Evil happening to people. I don’t think a film is something to be endured, unless there’s a ray of hope at the end.

Hell, I can’t even watch Requiem for a Dream a second time, and that’s a magnificent piece of filmmaking. Though this is probably because it threatened to ruin my lifelong crush on Jennifer Connelly, with whom I fell in love after watching Labyrinth as a boy. (I also fell hopelessly in love with David Bowie at the same time, but that’s another story.)

As my condition worsened I couldn’t even keep my concentration through a whole film, so I lost another hobby that, like writing, I used to find pleasurable.

I’m gradually getting better. I can concentrate through a movie, and hopefully through this site I’ll be able to relax and learn to love writing creatively again.

I welcome guest contributions. Let me know via the contact box below if you’d like to be one. Please include an example of a film or TV review – once a journalist, always a journalist, and I remain quite fussy. Soz. 😀